AmeriCorps Community Support Navigators helping to create inclusive communities.
Individual Advocacy and Family Supports
Individual Advocacy & Family Supports encompasses two interrelated areas: enhancing the capacity of natural supports to meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities and addressing whole-family support needs.
Activities include:
- providing information, training, and support services to families
- providing community training and technical assistance in promoting consumer and family-centered planning and service coordination, and
- promoting consumer and family support and advocacy systems at the community, state, and national level.